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Nuts About Your Eyes

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Regardless of their shape, size, or type, fatty foods may be bad for your eyes. With this exception: nuts!
Yep, eating nuts at least once a week may help protect your peepers from vision-stealing conditions like macular degeneration.

Feed Your Vision
Scientists discovered that people with age-related macular degeneration (AMD) could slow down the disease by eating one or more servings of nuts a week. Makes sense. The supernutrients in nuts -- vitamin E, copper, magnesium, fiber, and resveratrol -- all help protect against blood vessel problems that might contribute to AMD. (Use RealAge Smart Search to learn more about the condition.)

More Sight Savers
Not so nuts about nuts? Here are some other ways to keep your eyes sharp. How's your vision? Take the Amsler Eye Test at the end of this eye-health article.
RealAge Benefit: Eating a diet low in saturated and trans fats can make your RealAge as much as 6 years younger.

References Published on 04/23/2008.
Progression of age-related macular degeneration: association with dietary fat, transunsaturated fat, nuts, and fish intake. Seddon, J. M., Cote, J., Rosner, B., Archives of Ophthalmology 2003 Dec;121(12):1728-1737.

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Grandys Roasted Nuts


We found this small Maine company roasting nuts by hand -- using only organic ingredients -- in a 100-year-old restored barn. With flavors like maple walnut, curry, garlic herb, and tamari, you're sure to be nuts about their nibbles. Send fan mail to Aaron and Nat!

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6/6/2009 1:05:11 PM

My husband and I keep a can of mixed nuts in the family room where we snack on them while watching evening TV. We get the Planter's from Wa [Show More]
Jenotso
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6/5/2009 6:47:17 PM

My favorite breakfast is peanut butter (good fat) on whole wheat bread, sprinkled with cinnamon (lowers blood sugar), sprinkled with two tab [Show More]
jakegott
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9/19/2008 9:23:46 AM

A great breakfast recipe is to make regular, (not instant), oatmeal, sprinkled with cinnamon, & a little vanilla and some sweetener. (I use [Show More]
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